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Universal Extractor, though i love it to pieces, is not an archive manager. It uses 7zip for most of the standard archive formats, and various other unpackers/decompressors for installers and non-standard formats. Universal Extractor is merely a front-end for these tools (and a bloody good one at that).

Renegade:I just downloaded the newest version of alzip, and i have 2 suggestions regarding speed extractor:1 - the one i mentioned in this post, which i think i didn't express correctly.2 - have an option for "don't open explorer after decompress", because i don't use explorer and find that a bit anoying

Renegade:I just downloaded the newest version of alzip, and i have 2 suggestions regarding speed extractor:1 - the one i mentioned in this post, which i think i didn't express correctly.2 - have an option for "don't open explorer after decompress", because i don't use explorer and find that a bit anoying

...as WinRAR has the same ability. When you're going to compress something, go to the "Files" tab and check "Put each file to separate archive". Pretty useful feature for those long ROM zipping sessions . Although I don't know if it's capable of doing what sri was asking for in that thread

Lashiec, i'm also a big fan of WinRAR but the feature you mentioned is for creating separate archives based on filename while sri was looking for solution to create separate archives based on filesize, hence the uniqueness of SpinZip..

win.rar GmbH and rarlab.com are proud to announce the final version of the new WinRAR 4.0. This is yet another step ahead for the most complete archiving software on the market.

Highlights of Version 4.0

* RAR decompression speed is improved. Depending on data type, decompression can be up to 30 % faster than in previous versions.

* A new password manager feature has been added to 4.0. Users can define and save their frequently used passwords with the password organizer function. This way, the passwords can now be applied and retrieved easily and comfortably for file extracting purposes at any time.

* Numerous Unicode support improvements allow to process non-English file names more smoothly, such as Cyrillic and Chinese ones.

* WinRAR offers better Blu-ray Support: UDF support has been upgraded to UDF 2.50 revision, now making it possible to unpack most Blue-ray ISO files.

The whole list of all improved items and fixed bugs can be found here:

ThereĀ“s another one that could get very important in the future missing in the list: NanozipIt has the best compression power and its goal is envolving to create new and higher compression algorithms compared to others. Some testfiles have become the half of 7zip in ultra - depending on the data.You can check out an actual comparison to other archivers here.

Curt: where's that from? I don't see the Danish distributors, nor RarLabs own shop listing such addons? WinRAR has been free lifetime upgrades up to now, and that's a lot of years. Not saying they might not move away from it eventually, I personally don't believe in "lifetime upgrades", but... well

If we look at the knowledge base articles on win-rar.com, we can see that the one about updates from Nov 2006 saying

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Q: Do I need to pay again to use an upgrade?

A: You can UPGRADE for FREE!

It has always been our policy not to chargeour customers purchased RAR once, you will be ableto enjoy all further versions completely free.

was removed. The same is the case with the knowledge base article about their license model

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If you are not a registered user, please register to encourage the author to further develop and improve RAR, making possible new RAR releases!You gain the right to use all future RAR releases in the registered mode.

So what does all this mean?

I have no idea, but it could be an indication that all the annoying links to dubious looking "pc performance optimizers" they put on their pages are not generating enough income, so they are silently trying to remove the free updates .

At any rate, like Josh said at least the 4.0 version works fine with my old key.

@f0dder, it's on the purchase page, click the buy now button on win-rar.com

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Jibz: on win-rar.com perhaps, but not rarlabs.com which I've always used.

Yep, does seem like they might want to pull the plug on lifetime licenses; can't say I blame them, but it's a bit sad nonetheless. If they pull the free upgrades, I'm moving to 7-zip, it's mature enough by now imho. It doesn't have as many nice commandline options as rar.exe, but I'll live; haven't needed NTFS permissions or alternative data streams in archives, either.

As long as I can extract .rar files, subsequent packaging can be done in another tool, and having a truly open format is a definite bonus.

ThereĀ“s another one that could get very important in the future missing in the list: NanozipIt has the best compression power and its goal is envolving to create new and higher compression algorithms compared to others. Some testfiles have become the half of 7zip in ultra - depending on the data.You can check out an actual comparison to other archivers here.

We'll see - as long as it's binary-only, it's uninteresting apart from academic purposes.

Jibz: on win-rar.com perhaps, but not rarlabs.com which I've always used.

Since, like it says at the bottom of the page at rarlab.com

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win.rar GmbH - the official publisher for RARLAB products - handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR and www.rarlab.com.

I fear that difference is merely cosmetic. And as mentioned, they appear to have removed all mention of the free upgrades for life from both sites.

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Yep, does seem like they might want to pull the plug on lifetime licenses; can't say I blame them, but it's a bit sad nonetheless. If they pull the free upgrades, I'm moving to 7-zip, it's mature enough by now imho.

Yeah, I might have to do that too. 7-Zip does seem like the best bet at the moment, even though I dislike the GUI (been a while since I used that last though, could have changed).

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"A problem, properly stated, is a problem on it's way to being solved" -Buckminster Fuller"Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another" -Andrei Alexandrescu

Has there been no word on the effect this policy change will have on existing license holders? If they're not saying anything, maybe anyone who bought a license prior to Dec 2008 (or so, I'm guesstimating here) will continue to enjoy lifetime upgrades... Has anyone written to them yet? If not, I'm game...

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"Some people have a way with words, other people,... oh... have not way" - Steve Martin

The 7z GUI is still very limited, but frankly I almost only use WinRAR's "extract here" and "extract to" context menu folders (when not using a more specialized RAR extractor like SCuN), and "add files to archive..." - and once in a blue moon I browse through an archive looking for a particular file.

Has there been no word on the effect this policy change will have on existing license holders? If they're not saying anything, maybe anyone who bought a license prior to Dec 2008 (or so, I'm guesstimating here) will continue to enjoy lifetime upgrades... Has anyone written to them yet? If not, I'm game...

Haven't seen any mention of this anywhere, except for Jibz' investigations - definitely no emails or anything. Can't remember when I purchased WinRAR, but it's the first app I bought when I finally got a VISA card and could shop online.